Pastor: If we "publicly execute a few women," false rape allegations would end
Proving once again that patriarchal culture is alive and well in white evangelical churches, Christian pastor Joel Webbon said during a recent sermon that women who falsely accuse men of rape should be murdered by the government. Webbon, pastor of Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas (not far from Austin), argued that ancient Israeli law mandated this. If you accused someone of a crime, and your allegation was found to be false, you would face whatever punishment the accused would have suffered. If the alleged crime warranted the death penalty, then the lying accuser would be put to death. And it would be done in public. That, he continued, should apply to women who falsely accuse men of rape.
"In Israel, and this should be the law of the land in our country and every country still to this day, this is a timeless principle, a timeless, universal truth," Webbon preached. "If you perjure yourself by bearing false witness accusing somebody else, whatever the penalty would have been for that person had they been found guilty, then that penalty should fall on your head for falsely accusing them. If that were to occur and the just penalties were to be enforced, you, the false accuser, is now put to death," Webbon declared. "And that's a public death. It's a public sentence, publicly carried out, then the citizens of these United States of America, you know what they would do? #MeToo would end real fast. False accusing, playing the victim when you're actually not; you know how to end that real fast? All you have to do is publicly execute a few women who have lied."
Upon hearing the reaction from the congregation, Webbon added in the original sermon, “There are nicer ways to say that… The reason I say things the way I do is because I'm convinced there's not a better way to say it. I think that's precisely the way to say it." Even though Webbon believes rapists should suffer the same fate—state-sponsored execution—you can tell that it’s the women who lie, not the men who actually commit those crimes, that get him more riled up. After Right Wing Watch shared that clip, Webbon responded by basically saying, Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant: “The biblical penalty for rape is death. Therefore, if a woman lies about being raped, the biblical penalty for her is also death.”
There are obviously all kinds of problems with his Christian fantasy here, none of which garnered any bit of thought. The obvious one is that rapists today aren’t put to death. Even if that was the penalty in the Bible, it’s not our law. And conservative Christian pastors, no matter how much they whine about being persecuted, have never spent much time pushing for harsher sentences for men who commit sins. If they did, they might have to say goodbye to a bunch of their religious colleagues and preferred political candidates.
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Sorry, I can be a sanctimonious grammar cop at times until I misspell something and slink away in embarrassment.
... are the definition of batshit daft.
Offhand, I'd probably make a wager that to the extent there is any such "death penalty for rape" mentioned in the Bible, it only applies to a man raping a married woman who is not his wife, and that the logic for this penalty is based on the affront visited by the rapist upon the victims husband, not upon the victim herself. But now I'm going to look it up and see if I'm recalling correctly on this. Also, what a fucking dick this guy is 
Is that how it works?
I’ve lived in different parts of the country, but have been in the PNW for many years. 
Blood kin to Pastor Mark Robinson in NC?
